Despite being hit by Harrison, the La La Land star praised working alongside the veteran actor: 'he's somebody I've admired for a long time, most of us, all of us had in working with him, but then when you work with him...it's better than what you think.'

'He's somebody I've admired for a long time': Despite being hit by Harrison, the La La Land star praised working alongside the veteran actor

'His job was to be out of the range of the punch. My job was also to make sure that I pulled the punch,' the actor, 75, explained in the cover interview for GQ's October's edition.

'But we were moving, and the camera was moving, so I had to be aware of the angle to the camera to make the punch look good.'

And he added:'Ryan Gosling's face was where it should not have been.'

Harrison defended himself, explaining: 'You know, I threw about a hundred punches in the shooting of it, and I only hit him once.'

Harrison has filmed hundreds of fake fight scenes over the course of his movie career.